Friday, 23 January 2015

Foucault Notes & lesson notes

- Voyeurism - watching someone without them knowing 
- Panopitcalisation was an innovate prison design in which all inmates could be watched or be under threat of being watched - no privacy
- There is no privacy, anyone can see where you are and what you are doing. 
- Watching (voyeurism) is an act of power and control from the viewer. We are never ourselves in social situations until we are away from others controlling sight. 
- People act differently and the act if watching becomes an act of control.
- Our culture has become a prison - we are part of the prison because we are constantly watching each other etc. 
- Media can be argued to 'manufacture consent' of CCTV
- Big Brother has its name because it comes from the term big brother state which describes how society is constantly trying to monitor everything we do.
- Social networking and the internet gives us great control over voyeurism. 
- growing popularity of social networking has reflected how dependant 


Jameson - style 

Lyotard - theoretical, historical (time) 

Baudrilliard - people are getting 'lost' between what's real and what isn't, hyper sexuality, false sense of reality, lack of emotion, belief (also links to debord), disappointed when you come to reality 

Foucault - 

Debord - no such thing as morality, 

Post-modernism is a theory, not truth! - paradox/hypocritical 
Become about the individual 
Power

Black mirror:
15 million merits 
White bear 

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